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  My Boyfriend's Family Wants to Meet Mine (My Parent's are JWs) Help!

  by LaurenM in

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  so i have been "faded" for approximately 2.5 years.

  my parents know i haven't attended a meeting in quite some time, but don't know that i have been dating a guy for about eight months.

  we really love each other and his family is super sweet.

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  floridaborn

  To live your life you're going to have to put your happiness above everyone else's. I learned this recently dating an "unbeliever". It didn't matter that I had been extremely irregular before but as soon as I started dating my current boyfriend I became "bad association" and have been shunned by my family?

  Are you ready for that possible outcome? Is living on the fence just to have conditional love from your family worth it?

  I'm not trying to be harsh, just something I've had to deal with personally very recently.

  Don't feel rushed by his family either. If your boyfriend is OK with it just enjoy each other and the time you two get to spend together.
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  New Member Of The Governing Body 24 Jan 2018

  by pale.emperor in

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  just seen this announced on reddit:.

  ken cook was announced today at morning worship as the new member of the governing body.

  i dont recall him from the broadcasts, but he was formally a helper on the writing committee as per https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body/.

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  floridaborn

  But is he part of the generation??
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  "Righteous in a sense"

  by floridaborn in

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  i cannot believe i let 7 men in new york tell me god didn't consider me righteous.

  how do people that believe in god put up with this crap!!

  no wonder in all my years i had a hard time praying.

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  floridaborn

  Jhine

  JWs are the only religious people i know that would allow being told they are not righteous and just accepting it.
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  "Righteous in a sense"

  by floridaborn in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i cannot believe i let 7 men in new york tell me god didn't consider me righteous.

  how do people that believe in god put up with this crap!!

  no wonder in all my years i had a hard time praying.

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  floridaborn

  I cannot believe I let 7 men in new york tell me god didn't consider me righteous. How do people that believe in god put up with this crap!! No wonder in all my years i had a hard time praying.
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  They have to step down

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  with all the leaked information, it has to be a one way direction to the exit for the watchtower leadership and gb.. they can not stay.. it can take time, but this is the only scenario.. g..

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  floridaborn

  No, they will spin it as persecution and the rank and file will eat it up because they are too afraid to leave
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  Older JW: not happy

  by Gorbatchov in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this week i visited my sick father in law.. then an old elder from my far away congregation came in for coffee.

  did not see him in 15 years.. nice chat.

  had a lot to say, is alone, his sick wife disabled and away from home.. he told me: "living alone is so hard.

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  floridaborn

  My parents died 15 years ago, both in their early 70’s, so fairly early in their golden years and before the intro to iPads and even the new songs.

  They were both confident they would walk through Armageddon. I wonder how they would have felt if they would have survived up until now to see their religion become what it is today.
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  Manmade rules

  by Jrjw in

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  i was talking to someone a few years ago and he said in his congregation they have a rail of white shirts prepared in the cloakroom for if a speaker doesn't have a white shirt on.

  it was a rule in their hall that all brothers in the platform must wear white shirts when going talks and if the speaker won't comply when asked to change into the shirt they provide an elder in the congregation will do the talk instead.

  i have never known any other halls do it so it must be a rule the elders have made up without gb input.

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  floridaborn

  My favorite rule came direct from the Borg, don't hold your significant others hand during the prayer cause it can be distracting.

  A more ridiculous one though, a sister i know was counseled for wearing a thong because her lack of panty line was distracting.
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  What Made You Decide To Finally Leave The Organization?

  by minimus in

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  was there one certain event or was it more a cumulative thing?.

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  floridaborn

  The final straw for me was realizing men thought the could control my relationship with god.
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  Strange

  by Jrjw in

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  a couple of times at the meetings this year we've been told that in the future we might get some strange directions from the society that might not make any sense to us.

  then they've said will we show our loyalty to jehovah by still obeying?

  seems a rather unusual thing to say.

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  floridaborn

  EverApostate they said in a recent watchtower separation was now allowed if the other spouse was no longer a believer

  I’d like to know what scripture they quoted for that though
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  Watchtower Releases 2017 Grand Total Figures!

  by darkspilver in

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  2. friends

  2017 grand totals.

  branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 90. .

  number of lands reporting: 240. .

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  floridaborn

  Even if or when they show a decrease they will spin it in their favor: “the love of the greater number now means less will be accepting the truth” “no growth means the time of the end is in the final milliseconds of the last seconds”. And people like my family will continue to eat it up